[JIRA] (JENKINS-60771) "Country" column is misleading

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directhex@apebox.org (JIRA)

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Jan 14, 2020, 4:00:03 PM1/14/20
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Jo Shields created an issue
 
Jenkins / Improvement JENKINS-60771
"Country" column is misleading
Issue Type: Improvement Improvement
Assignee: evernat
Components: monitoring-plugin
Created: 2020-01-14 20:59
Priority: Minor Minor
Reporter: Jo Shields

"Country" in the sessions pane implies something about the geographic location of the user. This column would be more accurately descriptive as something like "Locale" if it's intending to convey that information, or a GeoIP lookup rather than locale match if it's intending to really identify the country.

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evernat@free.fr (JIRA)

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Jan 15, 2020, 8:41:02 PM1/15/20
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evernat commented on Improvement JENKINS-60771
 
Re: "Country" column is misleading

Technically, it's true than the displayed country flag is based on the browser's locale, like technically Edge is now based on Chrome. But it's called Edge and not Chrome.
First, the column is written as Country because there is no translation of Locale in French .
And then and it's more important, the displayed country flag is only the country part of the browser's locale. Most of the time, that is the real country and location of the user, or at least of his/her citizenship. And of course, a country flag is about a country, not about a locale.
Given that, closing this issue as invalid.

For GeoIP, I understand that having country or city location of users may be of interest but that's another issue.

evernat@free.fr (JIRA)

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Jan 15, 2020, 8:42:03 PM1/15/20
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evernat closed an issue as Not A Defect
Change By: evernat
Status: Open Closed
Resolution: Not A Defect

evernat@free.fr (JIRA)

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Jan 15, 2020, 8:44:03 PM1/15/20
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evernat edited a comment on Improvement JENKINS-60771
Technically, it's true than the displayed country flag is based on the browser's locale, like technically [Edge is now based on Chrome|https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-60772]. But it's called Edge and not Chrome.
First, the column is written as Country because there is no translation of Locale in French :).

And then and it's more important, the displayed country flag is only the country part of the browser's locale. Most of the time, that is the real country and location of the user, or at least of his/her citizenship. And of course, a country flag is about a country, not about a locale.
Given that, closing this issue as invalid.

For GeoIP, I understand that having country or and city location of users may be of interest but that's another issue.
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